NEW DELHI: Police said a man on trial for the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus committed suicide
STOCKHOLM: Welsh-born Princess Lilian of Sweden, whose decades-long love story with the king’s uncle was one of the better kept secrets of the royal household, has died. She was 97. The Royal Palace says Lilian died
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican insists that the cardinals participating in the upcoming conclave will vote their conscience, each influenced only by silent prayers and reflection. Everybody knows, however, that power
JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela left a hospital after “successful” medical tests and returned to his home in Johannesburg on Sunday, the spokesman for South Africa’s president said. The former president and
CARACAS, Venezuela: Venezuelans will vote April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced Saturday as increasingly strident political rhetoric begins to roil this polarized country.
AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan’s parliament voted Saturday for the monarchy’s caretaker prime minister to form a new Cabinet, the first time in the country’s history that the legislature rather than the
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels freed 21 U.N. peacekeepers on Saturday after holding them hostage for four days, ending a sudden entanglement with the world body that earned fighters trying to oust
KABUL: About 20 people were killed in two suicide bombings in Afghanistan Saturday. A Taliban spokesman said the attacks were a message for Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who is
ZAATARI, Jordan: Walk among the plastic tents in one corner of this sprawling, dust-swept desert camp packed with Syrian refugees, and a young woman in a white headscarf signals. “Come
CARACAS, Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday as Venezuela’s acting president, using the occasion to launch blistering attacks on the U.S. as well as the political opposition, which objected